The UK used to screen a great children's series called "Rainbow".
Here is a genuine segment. The clip is brilliant in itself, but, how did we never see this first time around?
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Haha, yes, seen this one before, still makes me laugh though! Amazingly innocent too! A slice of comic genius I think.
deleted user 24.04.2005 16:42
John - this clip was filmed by the cast and crew for an in house xmas party - it was never mean't for transmission , but things being what they are this was too good not to emerge somewhere.......
Paint the whole world with a rainbow i used to love that show-never seen that eposide though nearly wet myself laughing xx Thanks so much something to pass round the office tomorrow xx
You just ruined my childhood :-p
Here is the story behind the clip.
"We're often asked about the so called rude Rainbow, clips of which have been shown on the Channel Four programmes, TV Unzipped and TV Offal. The clip can now be found on the web, without too much effort. Although often introduced as the unaired pilot, this episode was actually specially made by the team at Thames Television. Geoffrey Hayes told us, "The VT department of each ITV company, every Christmas had a competition to enter all the outtakes from their particular companies programme out put, and see which ones were the funniest. But ours wasn’t an outtake, we specially did it. It was specially scripted and we did it and I never saw it! We did it and Thames won it, but what they actually won, I don’t know. But I never saw the video. I can’t remember much about it except for Zippy with a banana." The script was written by the voice of Zippy and George; Roy Skelton. "